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flog | 4 years ago

Remote is such an overloaded term. Is it US/North America only? Is it equal work for equal pay globally?

I was someone who took the opportunity to relocate back to my home country when Covid struck, but had to take a near 50% pay cut to do so, despite doing the same work. I'm surprised this hasn't become more of a hot button issue within the community.

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r00fus|4 years ago

Timezone and management capabilities of your organization could have been an issue in why the pay was so different.

Especially for startups, managing payroll in another country could be challenging. Also the latency on communications for daylight working hours could be bad - back and forth discussions leading to swift actions are hamper by a 9+hr timezone difference.

vultour|4 years ago

They don't need to manage payroll in another country. Everybody working overseas does so as a contractor which means it's just another expense for the employer.

sanderjd|4 years ago

I don't think it is an overloaded term... It just means that there is no office you are expected to go into. Those things you identified are just other dimensions that are also important.

flog|4 years ago

I guess what I was hinting at was the difficulty in filtering "remote" roles

chrischen|4 years ago

Equal pay globally would mean less pay for Silicon Valley tech workers and more pay for Chinese/Indian/Eastern European devs.

kortilla|4 years ago

Unlikely for Chinese devs, most of them don’t speak English. Definitely more common in India/Eastern Europe.

Salgat|4 years ago

It's so much easier to just hire someone in the same country. No visa/sponsorship, no timezone worries, no language/culture barriers. It's just so much easier.

xtracto|4 years ago

I work (from Mexico) with people in the US, which has 4 time zones for mainland. My time zone lands in CT, Which is convenient both for ET and PT. I didn't require a sponsorship and I am able to communicate pretty well with my American peers.

And I'm between 50% and 70% cheaper than hiring someone in the US at the same level (PhD, 10+ years of industry experience, Executive level experience, startup experience, highly technical , etc etc).

And I know several people with a profile similar to mine.

Companies that discover this are getting an "unfair advantage "